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Here are the first two of danim's YouTube videos (only two per post allowed):

I'm afraid that, since I was born even before The Lego Group started producing plastic toys in 1958, I grew up BEFORE Lego Technic. I guess that makes me a "fossil"! These are the kinds of sets I had (as shown from a 1974 British Lego catalog):

Your small-scale Caterpillar D9T Bulldozer looks good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XViusneiC2c

The 8288 B-Model does look interesting:

@ 88high: There are many USA Bricklink vendors who could sell you additional red 6539 Technic Driving Rings. I used to buy Bricklink parts using CASH sent in the US Postal Service mail, until PayPal came along. Look on the Bricklink vendor's "Splash" page or "Store Terms" page to see if they accept cash. I never had any problems sending dollar bills (wrapped in a sheet of paper inside the envelope), and asking for change in the package sent back to me. I must have done this for ~300 Bricklink orders, over many years. PayPal is faster and easier, but good old-fashioned CASH works too!

It sounds ambitious! When you say "Red Shifter parts", do you mean the 6539 Technic Driving Ring? In regards to whether the "wheels are too small" or not, we have not seen any pictures yet....

@ jorgeopesi: Don't get me wrong -- your Lego Pagani Huayra Supercar is excellent (far better than I could ever do)!

The Eurobricks server is still running fairly slow on Sunday, March 25th. Whitefang has posted all of his pictures on this Flickr photoset, so recommend that all of the Eurobricks-hosted images be "swapped-out" to the (identical) Flickr images.

EdwardWhelanPiano posted this YouTube video of the Lego Technic 8480 Space Shuttle opening up its cargo doors and deploying its yellow satellite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpp9Od9KEYQ

As reported on Brickset today, mostly in French: "Attention les amis, 70% de réduction immédiate dans les Carrefours sur les LEGO ! KINGDOMS / HARRY POTTER / ATLANTIS / TECHNIC / BIONICLE Il ya aussi un TIE Fighter gratuitement lorsque vous achetez 55 euros ou plus de starwars lego de http://shop.lego.com/en-FR/ The is a -70% reduction at Carrefours supermarkets in france. From Lego France a free tie fighter when you buy 55 Euros or more." Rough English translation: Attention Friends: Get an immediate 70% price reduction at the Crossroads supermarkets in France on the LEGO! KINGDOMS/ HARRY POTTER/ ATLANTIS/ TECHNIC/ BIONICLE sets. Get a Lego TIE Fighter free when you buy 55 Euros or more Lego Star Wars --- http://shop.lego.com/en-FR/ . From this Wikipedia article, it seems that there are Carrefour/ Crossroads stores in many countries worldwide.

@ Legobodgers: I don't think we have seen a Technic Steampunk Shark on this forum before! If you can, don't take it apart -- children (and adults) would enjoy seeing it operate at a Lego exhibition! I am studying your pictures on your Flickr photostream more closely to appreciate its details (click on the picture to enlarge full-size):

Peeron states the 8288 Crawler Crane cost USD $50 in 2006 for 800 pieces. One could gather the needed pieces (from this Bricklink parts inventory) to make this model:

I have used sunsky/ sunmint1's PDF Building Instructions (for the motorized 8041 Race Truck) that Lost_In_Noise linked to above. The use of Power Functions makes the truck model more fun. His shows him driving the "LEGO 8041 truck...motorized with Power Functions remote control. This is a simple modification with less change in the chassis and overall shape." Read more about it on this Korean-to-English translation of his original BrickInside post. You may enjoy building Tomik's alternate "C-model" of the 8041 Race Truck -- a Formula Racer which "features V8 engine with moving pistons, rear axle differential, front axle steering and adjustable rearview mirrors":

@ jorgeopesi: Your video is a bit dark and we can't see well into the model's interior, but we get the idea of you shifting through the gears. Perhaps you could use a tripod or place your camera on a stack of books; it's difficult to photograph and drive at the same time. Do you have plans to make a video of it driving outdoors? The distinctive headlight "nostrils" over the front tires don't look quite right on your model:

Multidollar1234 re-posted this well-edited by 9VLEGOTrainfan of two trains colliding with a third train:

The 8479 Barcode Multi-Set has a "Code Pilot" that reads a barcode card: I don't see a "Light Sensor" listed on Bricklink's 8479 Parts Inventory webpage. However, one can download the 8479's Technic Code Pilot 4111545 User Guide here (via SkyDrive) to see how the scanning is done. From a review on Brickset, sabpol noted that "Programming the scanner is pretty neat. You can either scan codes off of the placemat-looking card, or you can program it by recording a series of moves as you make the truck run, kind of like recording a macro on a spreadsheet. You can program the truck to operate at different speeds, 4 actually, if you count the "varying speed" scan code. You can also record several different motorlike sounds and one octave of musical notes. One sensor brick on the scanner operates the sensor, and the other sensor brick operates the motor. You have to make sure you hook up the sensor and/or motor to the correct sensor on the scanner. "A separate instruction booklet explains how to record programs. My set also came with a little service booklet dated 1998 listing several parts like the motor, gears, and wired sensors that this set uses. I don't think these "sets" are available at S@H anymore, though. I typed 5225 (set # for the motor) into LEGO's web site, and no matches came up. The main instruction booklet contains detailed instructions for building 3 other models."

The 32060 "Technic, Gear Timing Wheel 8 Tooth", used on the 8479 Barcode Multi-Set and a few other sets, can be used for more than decoration. An engine's "Timing Gear" or Timing Belt "controls the timing of the engine's valves" (per Wikipedia). There are white marks to allow a strobe light to determine their exact speed of rotation. From Brickfactory.info, here is how the part is used in the 8479 Barcode Truck's "A" and "B" models:

@ grum64: You're not too handicapped; you have achieved many successes where others would have given up. There are many Lego fans who never even ATTEMPT Technic building, because they think "It's too hard".... While Peeron is good, you can find PDF Lego Building Instructions on these various websites: Lego Customer Service Building Instructions webpage (good for most Lego sets). Lego.com TECHNIC Building Instructions webpage (good for recent sets only) Brickset.com (good for some sets -- use the "Search" button at the top-right) Brickfactory.info (has individual Building Instruction pages as JPGs for most Lego sets) The 8868 Air Tech Claw Rig looks like a nice set to build!

On Flickr, Duq (Ronald Vallenduuk) posted this picture of his Power Functions Points Motor for switching Lego rails (click on the image below to enlarge). He wrote, "I started building this when I needed remote control for our display in Blackrock. Then I remembered the Reverse Engineering Challenge in RailBricks 9 so I used that as a starting point. Looking for inspiration I found this idea by Chris Alano which looked promising. I didn't like the little lever to hold down the Technic steering connector. I then remembered the mechanism in 8052 Container truck and realised I could replace 32068 with 42003 [shown below] for a much stronger solution. It all worked well and it's smaller than the design in RailBricks..."

Nope -- the Lego "Crown Vicky" was done by the incomparable Lego911 (Flickr photosets).

On MOCpages, George Staples posted his Lego Technic "Ford F-150 Raptor. If you do not know what this is, I strongly recommend watching the video below from Top Gear (American Version). It features the raptor and shows off its amazing abilities. The coolest part of this truck is that it is a production vehicle. It comes out of the factory ready to rip up terrain like nothing else. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5paAXmf_8A "Some specs on my version: One XL motor for drive One M-motor for steering Solid axle rubber band suspension 4 speed transmission. "The transmission is not my design. I got it from Sariel who makes some very awesome stuff. "The steering is my design, I have a worm gear drive mounted to the axle and two planetary gears linked via universal to the m motor. This allows the suspension to travel, and the steering to work all at the same time. "As you can tell from these pictures and the picture below, it has a interesting suspension system. The real Raptor has independent suspension, with the A-arms and shocks and stuff, but when I went to build the suspension, A-arms and springs didn't give me the appropriate travel distance. Also the A-arms and differential made the model too wide for the tires. So I played around with a few designs and came up with this one. The only draw back is I had to leave a hole in the bed for the shock arms to move up and down."

It's too late!

Jurgen Krooshoop's Lego Zorex 220 Motorized Excavator has been uploaded to TechnicMad's Rebrickable website. One can see the various parts needed; it joins his fantastic "Ultimate 8043" (one of the most popular MOCs on Rebrickable). I bought his Building Instructions, and they are very well done!

Nico71 is a FAST Lego Technic builder! Here is his that shows him QUICKLY assembling his Lego Trial Crawler (in a time-lapse sequence):

You could download the free substitute "Lego Engineer" software that can run on the LEGO Dacta serial interface box (Interface B), which is what the Lego Dacta 9751 set uses.